I had yet another question about brooks saddles. i realize there are a lot of threads on here about them, but a lot of them have been dormant for a while, plus in my searches i hadn't yet found the exact thing i was wondering about.

i don't have a brooks yet, but i have ridden on one and loved it, and am in the market for my own. now the overwhelming process of narrowing down the many options. :-/ right now i have a women's forte contour, with a cutout, and find it is slightly better than the previous random (on a used bike) saddle i had without a cutout, but there is still smashing of my lady bits. (i'm still undecided about the brooks w/cutout vs. brooks w/no cutout question, too, but that's not the main focus of this question--and i'm leaning towards no cutout anyway, actually)

it seems like a good percentage of the brooks owners on here swear by the slightly wider B67/B68 (which has a width of 205mm, whereas most of the other brooks saddles [e.g. B17] are 175mm). this makes intuitive sense to me, as i have "childbearin' hips", although i haven't yet actually measured my sit bones--i've seen a bunch of different methods for doing this on here and frankly they all seem pretty awkward. and yet i feel more and more like i HAVE to do this before getting a new saddle. (have all the methods been compiled anywhere, like in one post?)

my bf, who is a fairly experienced cyclist, does not think i should get a 205mm-wide brooks saddle because of the fact that i have drop bars on my bike; he says that the wider saddles are much better for a much more upright position, where virtually all of the weight is on your butt, and that, if i were to have one on my bike (with drop bars), the extra width would get in the way when i bend over slightly for the bars. however, my bars are actually pretty high--close to level to the saddle, if not slightly higher, and i like them that way. so, some weight certainly goes forward to my hands, but not as much as with people with lower drop bars.

so my question is mainly: all you ladies with the B67s/B68s, what kind of handlebars does your bike have? how bent over are you?

thanks in advance.